Patrick Ness’s series will debut sometime this year.

Doctor Who’s new spinoff series has found a home in the States.
During a press tour in Los Angeles this week, it was announced that Class will air on BBC America sometime this year.

Class hails from author Patrick Ness and will be set at Coal Hill School – a recurring feature in both new and classic Doctor Who.

Many of the Doctor’s companions have worked at the school, including Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright and Clara Oswald.

BBC Three will air the eight-part series in the UK. Air dates will be announced at some point in the future.
Peter Capaldi previously admitted that he hadn’t been asked to appear in Class, even though he wants to be involved.

The 8th Doctor, Paul McGann, hasn’t ruled out more live-action Doctor Who, as long as it’s “a little bit every now and then”…

Despite his prolific and often terrific audio appearances in the role, Paul McGann’s Doctor has only been seen on screen in the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie and 2013’s delightful mini-episode The Night Of The Doctor.

But will he ever appear in live-action form again? Mr McGann himself, it seems, is rather keen on he idea…

“I don’t mind doing a little bit every now and again and stealing all the glory!” “It’s quite fun. You’re coming in at the 89th minute and scoring the winning penalty – yeah, I’ll do that.”

“Whereas poor old [Peter] Capaldi’s gotta do nine months and 16-hour days. Yeah, OK, let him do that. Let someone else do the heavy lifting!” he joked, before going on to explain his feelings towards his time in the role.

“Just on a personal level, if I ever had misgivings – just about being in Doctor Who in the first place, or the nature of it – they’ve long since gone. I really enjoy it. It’s a good family to be part of – and it’s still going places. It’s a lovely thing to be associated with.”

He sounds like a nice chap, doesn’t he?

But the bigger question, of course, is how Steven Moffat or future showrunners could find away to squeeze McGann in without distracting us all too much from the incumbent Time Lord. What made sense during the anniversary year is a little harder to find room for in a standard series of the show, after all.

Who knew something some magical could result from a simple Happy Birthday to Who!

Peter Capaldi is no stranger to doing nice things from his fans (he made one ill Whovian’s day when he visited him in hospital in character last year) but his latest offering to loyal followers of the show is particularly sweet.

YouTuber Beth Axford and a group of more than 50 Doctor Who fans rallied together to send Capaldi a Happy Birthday video for his 57th birthday last April (2015) and the 12th Doctor not only took the time to watch the video – he decided to take a break from playing the Time Lord on the set of series 9 to record a very special thank you message for every single person who took part too.

And it was so lovely that Axford uploaded the video to her YouTube channel for all the world – and fans involved – to see.

From today, you are able to vote for your favourite television programmes in the annual “National Television Awards“. Once again, Doctor Who has made it onto the short list and we would urge all of our readers to vote for Doctor Who in the best drama category.

For the first time this year, The Gallifreyan Newsroom will be attending the awards ceremony, which will be broadcasted live from London’s O2 arena on ITV, Wednesday 20th January 2016. Let’s make it another victory for the Doctor!

VOTE DOCTOR WHO NOW!

Endeavour’s D.I. Fred Thursday wouldn’t mind switching sides to take on The Doctor.

He’s probably best known to TV viewers as Endeavour Morse’s boss and man of the law D.I. Fred Thursday but Roger Allam wouldn’t mind finding himself on the wrong side of the law if he was in an episode of Doctor Who.
The actor, who admits he was “one of those children who’d hide when Doctor Who started”, would love to get his teeth into a nasty role in the beloved Sci-fi series.

“I’d like to do it”, Allam says in this week’s edition of Radio Times. “Playing a villain would be great.”
Perhaps D.I could be short for Dalek Intelligence, eh?

For now he’ll have to content himself with chasing down the criminals on this planet with DC Endeavour Morse, but never say never. Who knows when a Tardis might pop up on the streets of 60s Oxford?

Stranger things have happened in the Whoniverse.

Remembering those who contributed to the Doctor Who universe and who sadly passed away in 2015 by Toby Hadoke

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song, had an official rating of 7.69 million viewers.

The final rating includes those who watched the programme within one week of transmission. It is an increase of nearly 2 million on the initially reported figure.
Christmas Day saw some impressive timeshift figures. The top programme of the week was the final episode of ITV’s Downton Abbey, which increased its audience by four million to finish with an official audience of 10.92 million.

A substantial timeshift was also achieved by the BBC’s highest rated programme, Mrs Brown’s Boys, which finished with 9.49 million watching. Other BBC programmes doing well included Call the Midwife with 9.3 million, Stick Man with 9.28 million, and Strictly Come Dancing with 8.54 million. The Boxing Day showing of the Agatha Christie mystery And Then There Were None also scored highly with 8.61 million viewers.

The Queen’s Christmas Broadcast to the Commonwealth had 6.35 million watching on BBC One but, once ITV’s figures were added, it just edged above Doctor Who with 7.76 million viewers.
Doctor Who was 8th for the week and 7th for Christmas Day. It achieved higher ratings than the ubiquitous soaps Coronation Street, EastEnders and Emmerdale.

Since the series returned in 2005 there have been eleven Christmas day episodes, the most successful being the 2007 episode starring Kylie Minogue, Voyage of the Damned.
In the United States The Husbands of River Song achieved a 1.242m Live+ SD Rating on BBC America.